Receptacle for containing papers.



No. 703,023. Patented June 24, I902.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN J. WVADE, OF IOWA CITY, IOYVA.

RECEPTACLE FOR CONTAINING PAPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708, dated June 1902- AApplication filed December 3. 1901. Serial No. 84,548. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN .I. WVADE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Iowa City, in the county of Johnson and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Receptacles forContaining Papers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, and to the lettersof reference marked thereon.

The present invention has for its object to provide a receptacle such asan envelop or pocket or any similar device for containing legal or otherpapers, which may be suspended within view and convenient reach of theperson requiring access thereto and when no longer required for use maybe filed away in a pigeonhole of a desk or other piece of oflicefurniture.

The invention consists in a receptacle having a flap and adapted forcontaining papers and provided with removable hangers, substantially asshown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of a receptacle in theform of an envelop and provided with hangers at its ends. Fig. 2 is asimilar View with the flap of the envelop raised; Fig. 8, a perspectiveView illustrating the application of my invention to a rack or othersupport.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a receptacle for containinglegal or other papers where access is required thereto, said receptaclebeing in the form of the ordinary envelop, of paper or other suitablematerial, as the material from which the receptacle is constructed doesnot enter into the invention but usually a thick and heavy paper isused, similar to the iile-envelops used in lawyers or other offices. Thereceptacle A is provided with suitable hangers B, which projectlaterally from the ends of the receptacle a suflicient distance toengage with suitable supports for the purpose of suspending thereceptacle therefrom.

In Fig. 3 I have shown two rack-bars E to better illustrate theapplication of my invention thereto, and it will be seen that thereceptacles may be conveniently reached and removed from the rack-barsor supports F and replaced when through with, the name of the person orcase being placed on each receptacle, so that when suspended, as shownin Fig. 3 of the drawings, the name of the person or case will appear tothe view. The

supports F, which may be of any suitable' receptacles with relation toeach other, as

shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, by the use of the supports arranged oneabove the other will bring the lettering on each receptacle to view atall times, thereby greatly facilitating the finding of any one of thereceptacles required.

The hangers consist of a wire rod 0, of any suitable thickness,connected to the receptacle A in any suitable manner, but removable, sothat after the receptacle, with contents, is no longer required for usethe rod may be withdrawn from the receptacle, so that it will not be inthe way when filing the receptacle in a desk or other piece ofoffice-furniture.

Although any suitable means may be employed for detachably connectingthe rod 0 to the receptacle, what is considered the most simple iscutting slits in the receptacle to form bearings D, so that the rod maybe connected thereto, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.This rod is of sufficient length to project beyond the ends of thereceptacle to form the desired hangers required to suspend thereceptacle from the rack or other support.

As a means of suspending the receptacles for convenient access it is thepurpose to provide a suitable rack, either inclosed in a case or withouta case or placed against the wall or other stationary object, the sidebars of the rack being far enough apart so that the receptacles willhang between them and permitting the hangers to be suspended by thenotches or projections which form the supports in the side bars, thereceptacles to hang down and the notches or projections to be far enoughapart so that the position of the receptacles with relation to eachother will be such as to expose to View the name or other inscriptionupon each one of the suspended receptacles, as illustrated in Fig. 3 ofthe drawings, each one of the receptacles capable of being Withdrawnfrom the rack without disturbing the other or theone next to it.

Having now fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A receptacle for containing papers comprising a pocket closed onthree of its sides and having a flap for closing the pocket-opening andarod removably connected to the receptacle between the pocket and flapand projecting at its ends beyond the sides of the pocket to formhangers, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Areceptacle for containing papers closed on three of its sides toform a pocket for loosely receiving and holding the papers and havingslits to form bearing, and a rod supported in the bearings and its endsprojecting laterally from the sides of the receptacle to form hangers bywhich said receptacle may be suspended from a suitable support,substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN J. WADE.

\Vitnesses:

J. G. MARNER, IV. J. HUFF.

